unc0nn3ct3d writes: "Published in Nature Scientists at The Weizmann Institute of Science successfully cultured single dimensional neurons 100 axoms long to form Closed circuits and Logic Gates. Finding the right thickness to be able to begin manufacturing the foundation of a synthetic nervous system, or in other terms an organic / genetic computer.

The question is what will arise from this? Will this form the basis for a more efficient computing system, or a synthetic brain? Either way it a loooooonnnggg way off of either of those possibilities but it represents the first step."

IANANP (I am not a neurophysiologist.) The nervous system, and that includes the brain and everything it connects to in the body (which is most everything), can be viewed as a system of logic gates. However, these are not like the logic gates that most people on here have in mind. The basic unit, the analogue to the transistor, is the neuron. The neuron, like the transistor, receives input to its various dendrites (the input side) (there could be thousands of these on a cell receiving input from different s